[Q] bell galaxy s4, wifi wont enable (stuck at turning on) stock firmware, not rootedtore that unlocked it, the wifi wouldnt enable. The widget stays at the dim green, and in the wifi settings, the switch goes to the 'on' position, but stays grey and says "turning on...' without doing anything. I have searched all over the internet looking for a fix, but everyone is saying i have to either flash custom firmware or root my phone. I dont want to do either. Has anyone found a fix that doesnt invlove either of those options, without having to send the phone back? Is there a driver or something i can use to fix it?
I have already done a factory reset andchecked all the dial pad codes. Please help.
ninetyone said:
[Q] bell galaxy s4, wifi wont enable (stuck at turning on) stock firmware, not rootedtore that unlocked it, the wifi wouldnt enable. The widget stays at the dim green, and in the wifi settings, the switch goes to the 'on' position, but stays grey and says "turning on...' without doing anything. I have searched all over the internet looking for a fix, but everyone is saying i have to either flash custom firmware or root my phone. I dont want to do either. Has anyone found a fix that doesnt invlove either of those options, without having to send the phone back? Is there a driver or something i can use to fix it?
I have already done a factory reset andchecked all the dial pad codes. Please help.
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Flash a factory ROM. But this isn't a "Bell" forum (assuming bell.ca).
A safe thing to do is to install Samsung Kies and use "Emergency Firmware Recovery" to re-flash factory stock. That will return you to stock and hopefully repair your wifi.
You can also flash a no-wipe factory ROM that corresponds to the specific build on your device.
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Flash a factory ROM. But this isn't a "Bell" forum (assuming bell.ca).
A safe thing to do is to install Samsung Kies and use "Emergency Firmware Recovery" to re-flash factory stock. That will return you to stock and hopefully repair your wifi.
You can also flash a no-wipe factory ROM that corresponds to the specific build on your device.
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Thank you very much for your advice.
would you by any chance know of a no-wipe ROM build for an SGH-i337M on BELL from Canada? That would help out a lot!
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I recently flashed CWM onto my uncles GS3 and rooted his current rom. I made a backup and then tried out a new AOSP rom, which we decided not to keep because my uncle did not like it. But now, returning to the old rooted stock rom, every time the phone disconnects from wifi, it completely freezes up on the lock screen. Pressing the lock button does not shut off the screen and instead just locks it. You are unable to unlock it as the phone completely freezes up. The only way to get into the phone is to double tap home to get into the voice commands, and then go to home from there.
But even after that the phone continues to freeze. I tried another ROM on his phone today, but the problem still persisted a while later. It all happens when the phone is connected to wifi, and you walk out of range. After which the phone starts to freeze up.
I'm totally unsure whats going on. I just flashed the rom again, and we are trying a clean slate with no restoring of any data. It may have started to happen after we installed root browser (just as a guess), but we could be completely wrong.
If this continues again on this rom as well (which is Revolution HD) Im going to go back to completely stock (rom & recovery), and hope it still doesn't persist there. If not then I am out of options, and I have no clue what to do.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. We spent so many hours today trying to resolve this.
Thanks!
Usualy WiFi problems are kernel related. Have you tried Siyah or another custom kernel?
If this will not help than returning to stock with all wipes is the best idea, this should resolve your problem. If not, than you can try to reset router or set static IP for s3. Also try to remove WiFi setting for your home network in the phone and set it again manualy or via WPS mode.
i9.0.1.3k galaxy imperator
SirKunon said:
Usualy WiFi problems are kernel related. Have you tried Siyah or another custom kernel?
If this will not help than returning to stock with all wipes is the best idea, this should resolve your problem. If not, than you can try to reset router or set static IP for s3. Also try to remove WiFi setting for your home network in the phone and set it again manualy or via WPS mode.
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Thanks for the reply. This issue has been occurring between two different roms, so can the kernal still be an issue? Its happened with the absolute stock rom (w/ root) and Android HD Revolution.
My uncle said he would play around with the phone and let me know if it freezes again by tomorrow. If it does im going to wipe and stock.
Can anyone show me where to get the stock roms for the i9300?
I've downloaded and tried 3 different ones, but the phone never manages to boot up!
JitinDhillon said:
Can anyone show me where to get the stock roms for the i9300?
I've downloaded and tried 3 different ones, but the phone never manages to boot up!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
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JitinDhillon said:
Can anyone show me where to get the stock roms for the i9300?
I've downloaded and tried 3 different ones, but the phone never manages to boot up!
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Same problem on Galaxy Note N7000, did your problem resolve by reverting back to stock because I've tried every possible option, to no avail?
juliobahar said:
Same problem on Galaxy Note N7000, did your problem resolve by reverting back to stock because I've tried every possible option, to no avail?
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Go into recovery and wipe the cache, I believe that was my problem.
Hi all,
I've started to have an issue with my HTC One X+ where it won't automatically connect to (any) Wi-Fi.
If I then go to settings, Wi-Fi appears as 'Disconnected' but the slider button says 'On'.
If I try and turn it off, it wont turn off. Then 'settings' ends up hanging.
The only way around it is a reboot, but this happens every day now, seems to normally happen when I return home and expect it to drop 3G and connect up to my homes Wifi (as it always has done?).
I really don't want to do a factory reset... I can't say that I've changed anything to cause this...
Does anyone else have the same issue and have you been able to resolve it?
Thanks
I'm having the same problem, but for me I know it didn't start happening until after I did the update. Not sure how to fix either.
Are you both on stock ROM?
I had similar problem after OTA update from AT&T. It was worse than yours since I wasn't able to enable WIFI at all, it just stuck on the "turning on" state. I was able to fix the problem by re-flashing the boot.img following this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235248
Btw my phone is rooted but running the stock rom.
Hope this helps.
KH_Lionheart said:
I'm having the same problem, but for me I know it didn't start happening until after I did the update. Not sure how to fix either.
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Yes I'm stock and locked right now because I have some problems I need to return the phone under warranty for, and I have the problem where it is just stuck trying to turn on. Thanks for the link, but until I switch this one under warranty I don't want to do any modifications to void the warranty. As soon as I get the new one I will be unlocking and rooting it immediately, not doing so is killing me right now.
Well just reboot in bootloader mode and flash the correspondent RUU. You know how to find the good version?
Good day,
I have a samsung galaxy s3 i9305 LTE and I have been using this device without problems for around 2 years now. It runs on Jellybean 4.3 baseband version i9305zhucnb1. It has been running on this firmware for a couple months now ever since it has been rolled out. The problem is, the WIFI suddenly stopped working. Never had this problem before and I actually never had any problems with this device ever. Whenever I turn on WIFI, it detects my home networks and other networks wherever I go but whenever I try to connect, it just shows saved secured, and sometimes authentication error after a couple of attempts. I have other WIFI devices at home and all are working perfectly. I tried forgetting the networks and I am positive that the WIFI password is correct. I tried to restore the device to facroty settings hoping that it would work. I tried accessing my router and I'm sure my device isn;t blocked. I even configured my routers to only accept the mac address of my device and block all others but still wouldn't connect. I tried rooting my device via odin but my device blocks root access and shows the error message "an application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. this attempt has been blocked.". I tried rooting it to try flashing custom roms. I also tried dialling *#0011# to configure my wifi but it still does not work. I don't think that the problem is my firmware because I had it for months and it didn't update before the issue occured. I was also about to try downgrading it to an ICS stock rom since I can't root it to try custom ROMs. I've been trying to fix this for days now. Can you guys give me a step by step instruction on how to fix this if it is at all possible? And maybe give me a link where I can download ICS or lower stock ROM's for this device. I think I have to use a TGY firmware, though I don't have an idea what it means. Thanks!
Wifi module
Maybe you've dropped your phone and the WIFI module loosened, and it can't work correctl?
riunoob1 said:
Good day,
I have a samsung galaxy s3 i9305 LTE and I have been using this device without problems for around 2 years now. It runs on Jellybean 4.3 baseband version i9305zhucnb1. It has been running on this firmware for a couple months now ever since it has been rolled out. The problem is, the WIFI suddenly stopped working. Never had this problem before and I actually never had any problems with this device ever. Whenever I turn on WIFI, it detects my home networks and other networks wherever I go but whenever I try to connect, it just shows saved secured, and sometimes authentication error after a couple of attempts. I have other WIFI devices at home and all are working perfectly. I tried forgetting the networks and I am positive that the WIFI password is correct. I tried to restore the device to facroty settings hoping that it would work. I tried accessing my router and I'm sure my device isn;t blocked. I even configured my routers to only accept the mac address of my device and block all others but still wouldn't connect. I tried rooting my device via odin but my device blocks root access and shows the error message "an application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. this attempt has been blocked.". I tried rooting it to try flashing custom roms. I also tried dialling *#0011# to configure my wifi but it still does not work. I don't think that the problem is my firmware because I had it for months and it didn't update before the issue occured. I was also about to try downgrading it to an ICS stock rom since I can't root it to try custom ROMs. I've been trying to fix this for days now. Can you guys give me a step by step instruction on how to fix this if it is at all possible? And maybe give me a link where I can download ICS or lower stock ROM's for this device. I think I have to use a TGY firmware, though I don't have an idea what it means. Thanks!
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nope
I just charged it overnight and when i woke up, it just stopped working. where is the wifi module? the wifi does turn on and it detects wifi. it just doesnt connect. whenever i try to connect to a network, it shows saved, secured and sometimes authentication error.
riunoob1 said:
I just charged it overnight and when i woke up, it just stopped working. where is the wifi module? the wifi does turn on and it detects wifi. it just doesnt connect. whenever i try to connect to a network, it shows saved, secured and sometimes authentication error.
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Maybe it's time for factory reset? I know that's the easy solution and most complicated but you should do it from time to time.
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Perform a complete factory reset
andjeomilosrdja said:
Maybe it's time for factory reset? I know that's the easy solution and most complicated but you should do it from time to time.
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Well, i think this may be the time to perform a complete factory reset ! try backing up your data and perform a complete factory reset.
nope
already tried factory reset, already flashed stock rom. already reset wireless router and the router is a non-issue because i tried on several networks.
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already tried factory reset, already flashed stock rom. already reset wireless router and the router is a non-issue because i tried on several networks.
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Then it's a hardware problem.
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i decided to have it checked by a local technician and according to them, this was still a software issue. i dont know what to do anymore. they insisted that i should just keep flashing stock roms to fix these. already tried flashing the 4.3 tgy jellybean stock rom so i was thinking of flashing other version stocks. can anyone give e a good link where i can download tgy stock roms 4.1.2 or even ICS stock roms. I also am having problems with rooting the device. it gives me error message "an application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. this attempt has been blocked." after flashing autoroot in odin. my knox is not installed. thanks.
riunoob1 said:
i decided to have it checked by a local technician and according to them, this was still a software issue. i dont know what to do anymore. they insisted that i should just keep flashing stock roms to fix these. already tried flashing the 4.3 tgy jellybean stock rom so i was thinking of flashing other version stocks. can anyone give e a good link where i can download tgy stock roms 4.1.2 or even ICS stock roms. I also am having problems with rooting the device. it gives me error message "an application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. this attempt has been blocked." after flashing autoroot in odin. my knox is not installed. thanks.
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If they think it's a software problem,why didn't they fix it?
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dont know
the first time i brought this to them is when i attempted to flash an incompatible firmware. they also did not fix it. they said they dont have any available stock rom for i9305 and told me to download and flash one. mayba im just gonna have to look for a different technician when i have free time. so for the mean time, im trying to look for other fixes. btw, i tried downloading a tgy 4.1.2 stock rom and it does not flash successfully. for now i'm thinking of rooting and flashing custom roms. but whenever i flash auto root. it gives me the error message "an application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. this attempt has been blocked.". i tried updating supersu still the same thing. i manually installed root checker and says it does not have root access and it shows the said error message again. what should i do with that? Thanks
My GF's phone - just bough used - after some time started having trouble with wifi. It just won't turn on. No connection issues, just the wifi function doesnt want to start.
We did factory reset then another from that boot menu including cashe wipe but no result.
Android is 4.1.2 (that neweest official i think) and theres the following message "kies does not support initializing" so not possible to reflash from Kies ? Usb debugging was enabled
Do you think it will be possible from that Odin (never used it before) ? Will it void warranty or any risk if I want just the official rom for her ?
If not it looks like I will have to return for warranty repair ?
Thanks
trying to help a friend who's SM-T820 wifi started to fail. Switch it on, it spins for a while and switches off. (stupid me) I did a factory reset. Upon boot, it says someone tried to do a factory reset, please sign in to confirm. Well, can't sign in because wifi wont turn on....so on to ODIN and stock firmware tried T820XXU1AQF3 rom and in ODIN I get FAIL! (Auth). On the TAB it says:
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official, SYSTEM STATUS: Official, FRP lock is enable, OEM lock is enabled, ... SW REV CHECK FAIL : [boot] Fused 1 > Binary 0
Reboot, and I'm back to the please sign in to confirm reset. Can't go to settings to disable OEM lock. Where should I look next?
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trying to help a friend who's SM-T820 wifi started to fail. Switch it on, it spins for a while and switches off. (stupid me) I did a factory reset. Upon boot, it says someone tried to do a factory reset, please sign in to confirm. Well, can't sign in because wifi wont turn on....so on to ODIN and stock firmware tried T820XXU1AQF3 rom and in ODIN I get FAIL! (Auth). On the TAB it says:
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official, SYSTEM STATUS: Official, FRP lock is enable, OEM lock is enabled, ... SW REV CHECK FAIL : [boot] Fused 1 > Binary 0
Reboot, and I'm back to the please sign in to confirm reset. Can't go to settings to disable OEM lock. Where should I look next?
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AQF3 firmware is an older firmware. If the device has been updated you need to use that or newer firmware. You can't flash an older firmware so that's probably the problem.
ok, I finally found the right rom to be able to flash, flashed the BL, AP and CSC images. Rebooted, and it went to: "an unauthorized attempt..." not a problem I know the username and password, but wifi still wont turn on. Ideas?
howudodat said:
ok, I finally found the right rom to be able to flash, flashed the BL, AP and CSC images. Rebooted, and it went to: "an unauthorized attempt..." not a problem I know the username and password, but wifi still wont turn on. Ideas?
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First, boot into the stock recovery and clear the cache. If that doesn't work then try flashing just the AP in Odin.
wipe cache: same result - an unauthorized attempt...and wifi unable to turn on
ap flash only: same result
also almost every tutorial I see on bypassing FRP lock requires that wifi be working. wifi is not working for some reason.
ok, so maybe a combination ROM for T820XXU2BRJ1 will help, that is the stock that is installed. Anyone know where I can find that?
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ok, so maybe a combination ROM for T820XXU2BRJ1 will help, that is the stock that is installed. Anyone know where I can find that?
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If you're looking for the stock firmware go to updato.com. It looks like the bootloader was unlocked at one time? Can you bypass the initial setup and get into settings? If so see if developer options is there. If not see if you can get to about tablet, software information. Then tap build number 7 times. That should initiate developer options. In there allow oem unlock. But, if you haven't gotten the firmware from updato get that first and flash it in Odin.
jd1639 said:
If you're looking for the stock firmware go to updato.com.
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I'm not looking for stock. I tried installing the stock already
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It looks like the bootloader was unlocked at one time?
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Maybe, but I dont think so. My friend wouldn't know how to do that.
jd1639 said:
Can you bypass the initial setup and get into settings? If so see if developer options is there. If not see if you can get to about tablet, software information. Then tap build number 7 times. That should initiate developer options. In there allow oem unlock. But, if you haven't gotten the firmware from updato get that first and flash it in Odin.
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I can't bypass the initial setup. The initial problem was that wifi wouldn't turn on, (spins for a few seconds then turns back off). I have tried visual assist, select a word, keyboard settings, but cant seem to make the jump to regular settings to be able to get to dev options. That's why I'm asking for a combination rom, I've heard that they have the engineering features I need to jump straight to settings.
of course if there is another solution I'm all ears
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I'm not looking for stock. I tried installing the stock already
Maybe, but I dont think so. My friend wouldn't know how to do that.
I can't bypass the initial setup. The initial problem was that wifi wouldn't turn on, (spins for a few seconds then turns back off). I have tried visual assist, select a word, keyboard settings, but cant seem to make the jump to regular settings to be able to get to dev options. That's why I'm asking for a combination rom, I've heard that they have the engineering features I need to jump straight to settings.
of course if there is another solution I'm all ears
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I'm not familiar with combination roms but I found this, https://www.hardreset.info/devices/...-tab-s3/faq/faq/samsung-combination-firmware/. Maybe that helps? If you could get into developer options you could enable oem unlock and possibly flash a custom rom. I was going to suggest rorymc928's rom in the roms, kernels, etc section.
have you fixed it? it's easy all you need is to flash the combination firmware to remove the FRP lock (by resetting to factory settings from combination firmware) and reflash stock rom after that, no need to unlock bootloader to do all this.
blinkycan said:
have you fixed it? it's easy all you need is to flash the combination firmware to remove the FRP lock (by resetting to factory settings from combination firmware) and reflash stock rom after that, no need to unlock bootloader to do all this.
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Do you know where you can get the combination firmware for the t820?
ok I was able to get past the FRP lock, finally. Now we're are back to the original problem. Turn wifi on, it spins for about 30 seconds and turns back off again.
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Do you know where you can get the combination firmware for the t820?
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i have used the T820XXU2ARI1 because T820XXU1AQB was not working for me (SW REV CHECK FAIL : [boot] Fused 1 > Binary 0) from www .getdroidtips. com/galaxy-tab-s3-combination-rom-files/ (i can't post links because new user)
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ok I was able to get past the FRP lock, finally. Now we're are back to the original problem. Turn wifi on, it spins for about 30 seconds and turns back off again.
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How? I have the exact same tablet and problem, I did the reset too.